Charlie Rich was bestowed with about as much musical
talent as can be packed into the 6 2" frame of any one man.
Sublimely honest singer. Gifted songwriter. An understated master of the
keyboard.
For much of his career, however, Charlies
achievements were neither the type recognized among black ties and
camera glare nor the gold records and multi-platinum albums that should
have obscured several very large walls. All that came later. Instead,
Charlie received the terribly profound gifts of reflection and withering
pain, of self doubt, of struggle, of longing and a sense of place, of
the need to love and the need to be redeemed. Amid the turmoil--and the
occasional hit--he received his greatest gifts: the unending loving
relationship with his wife, Margaret Ann, and their four beautiful
children.
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